Recently I bumped into Nathan and was able to have a conversation with him for the first time this year. I asked him how he liked his first grade teacher. "She's a pretty good teacher, she'll do," was his reply... his quip made me think of this little gem from last year.
I called in sick.
I’d been fighting a cold and sore throat all week and decided that a day of rest was in order. It’s hard to fight sickness when you have twenty five-year-olds sneezing and coughing on you all day long as well. Yes, we go over proper etiquette for these matters, often on a daily basis. But for some reason, they forget about it all and decide that using me as a tissue is just easier.
In any event, I stayed home, and the rest did me some good. By early evening, I was feeling better, and I figured that I should check my school e-mail to see if I missed anything earth-shattering. There were some get-well wishes from fellow teachers, and then, there was an e-mail from a parent. Nathan’s mother.
That day, because I had been out sick, a substitute teacher had been called in to teach my class. And apparently, this was a big deal to my students. I’m sure it caused quite a ruckus in the classroom, and according to this parent, some of the kids had lots to say about it when they got home, too. Nathan, who always found a way to make me smile, had jumped off the bus and exclaimed to his mother, “Mr. ______ was sick today. We had a prostitute teacher!”
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6 comments:
THAT is hilarious!!!
Hahaha It's always funny when the kids says words differently! :Dc
LOL. That is so great. I'm so glad the mom chose to share that with you!
Oh my..... I guess I will be frozen for a while if I was the mom :)
Wow. I could only imagine what went through that mom's mind when her little one came home to tell her that. Thankfully she could laugh about it.
Hahahahahahaaaaaa!!!! Thanks for the good laugh!! :-)
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